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Professor Conrad Gubera
looks back on 50 years

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& ROLL:

Meet Dr. David Penning,

a national expert on
scaly species

Alum Nick Weis - /

professional sled-dog racer

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FROM THE EDITOR

Dear alumni and friends,

Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to enthusiasm as “one of the
most powerful engines of success.”

“When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put
your whole soul into it,” he said. “Stamp it with your own
personality ... Nothing great was ever achieved without
1 enthusiasm.”

In this Spring 2017 edition of Crossroads, you’ll discover the
boundless enthusiasm found all across our great campus and
beyond. You’ll meet Dr. David Penning, a biology professor
whose passion for reptiles has been showcased by PBS and the
Discovery Channel. You’ll catch up with Dr. Conrad Gubera,
whose enthusiasm for teaching is unwavering after 50 years
at Missouri Southern. You’ll also read about students who
have dedicated themselves to music and community service,
as well as alumni whose passions range from the stage to
national and international competitions.

As always, we want to hear from you. If you’d like to share
a story idea, photo, favorite memory or simply comment
on something from this magazine, email us at crossroads@
mssu.edu.

Have a great summer, Lions! We’ll see you again this fall!
Editor

Crossroads Magazine

Missouri Southern State University

CAMPUS

From the President, 6

Around Campus, 10

Korea Semester Preview, 13

Reynolds Hall Renovations Update, 24

Dr. Conrad Gubera Looks Back
on 50 Years at MSSU, 22

Haley Henry - Dr. Al Cade
Service Award Recipient, 32

Elke Howe Takes Home
2017 Governor's Award, 35

UPDATE

Arts & Sciences, 44
Business, 46
Education, 48
Health Sciences, 50
Athletics, 52

Alum Races Dog-Sled Team, 18 ^

On the Cover

Dr. David Penning Recognized
for Snake Expertise, 26

Theater Grad Returns
with Acclaimed Play, 36

Picture This, 34

Business Grad, Crisis Consultant
Speaks at Commencement, 40

CONNECT

Getting Social, 30
Caught on Camera, 39
Class Notes, 56
Why I Give, 59

A NOTE FROM THE

PRESIDENT

Dear friends,

As they say, you cant move forward without knowing where youve been.

This March, we took some time to recognize those who helped build our history through our first-ever reunion for Joplin Junior College
(JJC) graduates. JJC alumni got a look at the colleges former home at Eighth and Wall, and enjoyed reminiscing about their college days.
It was a wonderful evening.

My hope is for all our alumni to stay connected to Missouri Southern for life. We want you to read our publications, follow us on¬
line, come to our events and continue to be an active member of the Lion family throughout your lifetime. I’m pleased to see our
connections growing stronger with alumni, and to see our Lion community growing as our enrollment continues to increase.

And while these are great things to celebrate, there are still challenges facing our institution. Most of you have already heard about the
deep cuts to state appropriations for higher education in Missouri, but I’ll bet you didn’t know that the withholdings proposed earlier
this year would take us back to state funding levels of 2008. Virtually everything costs more in 2017 that in 2008, and we are serving
many more students than a decade ago. Currently, state appropriations account for only 31 percent of our current revenue. . . and unfor¬
tunately it is headed south.

Accordingly, we have reduced staffing, eliminated several programs and student activities, curtailed vitally needed building expan¬
sions, and suspended valuable partnerships with other universities. It’s not easy to do more with less, and usually it’s impossible.

So, let me take just a moment to remind you of how important you are to the future of Missouri Southern. Simply, the generous and faithful
support you provide helps make up for the shortfall caused by shrinking state supp ort - and we need your help to keep your University strong.

By making a gift to Missouri Southern, you can help a young person get a start in the world. You can help enhance our programs and
assist deserving students during this important time in their development. And, you can very deservedly feel the Lion Pride that we all
share when we pull together as a family.

The work we do today, empowered by your gifts, will have a huge payoff tomorrow and for generations to come. So, as you enjoy this
edition of Crossroads , please consider joining us in this important work by making a donation to the Missouri Southern Foundation.

We are all MSSU Lions - proud, confident and strong.

Alan D. Marble, Ph.D.
President, Missouri Southern

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MISSOURI SOUTHERN
BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Glenn M. McCumber,

Chair

William L. "Bill" Gipson,

Vice-Chair

Tracy Flanigan
James Fleischaker
Alison R. Hershewe
Michael Franks
Anita Oplotnik
Carlos Haley

ADMINISTRATION

Dr. Alan Marble,

President

Dr. Brad Hodson,

Executive Vice President
Dr. Paula Phillips Carson,
Provost/Vice President for
Academic Affairs
Rob Yust,

Vice President for
Business Affairs
Darren Fullerton,

Vice President of Student Affairs
and Enrollment Management
Jared Bruggeman,

Director of Athletics

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Content Coordinator
Ashley Eriksen, Social Media
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Technology Coordinator
Chloe McMain, Graphic Designer

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS

Kevin Greim, Associate Vice
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Lee Elliff Pound, Alumni Director
Meagan Adams, Alumni Coordinator
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Assistant

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FOCUSONWHY

Drivers' eyes may have been diverted to our recent "Momentum"
campaign billboards celebrating our many recent forms of progress.

The graphic representing a triangular formation composed of our
faculty and students was most certainly visually captivating. But no
matter how many times I passed by one of them, I always paused
to reflect on the stories behind those proud faces. In the world of
public relations, the message must evolve, and the "Momentum"
billboards have been replaced with others sharing insights about
our growing aspirations, accomplishments and accolades. To me,
however, the notion of momentum lingers, and has evolved into
what I conceptualize as MOSOmentum.

MOSOmentum (my definition: the spirit that envelops our campus and ignites our passion for learning
and sharing of our collective wisdom each time we realize an opportunity to help a student succeed).

This concept of MOSOmentum reflects not just what we have accomplished - and there have been
many significant points of progress. In the last few weeks alone we have seen our trumpet ensemble
invited to compete in the National Trumpet Competition; we have received state approval to increase
the number of nursing students we can enroll by 50 percent; we have been solicited to be a partner
university for Disney World; we have introduced one of the nation's only, if not the only, universal
transfer student degree completion option; and, we have offered invitations to our very first class
of the Yours to Lose Advanced Medical School Acceptance Program, which simultaneously admits
students to MSSU and to Kansas City University medical school.

All of these achievements are notably significant and unique for Missouri Southern - as they would be
for any university anywhere. But on campus, behind closed doors, the engaged discussions that lead
to these accomplishments almost always focus not on what or how, but instead on why.

Why we should do things is a critical question for all of us - for the faculty and the staff, for the
administrators and the students. Why do we want to do this or that? Why should we invest here or
there? Because without a good answer to the why question, none of it really matters.

Recent and consistent enrollment records here at Missouri Southern have not been accidental. We
have targeted intentional and controlled growth as one objective to pursue. But we have not done
so simply out of a vacant desire to grow. We have attempted to grow to serve the needs of our
community, our region and our state. That is why.

We grow strategically, providing learning opportunities to students that will enhance their career
readiness, allow them to add value to the workplace, and to fulfill their professional dreams. That is
why we want to get bigger - not just to be bigger, but to provide more opportunity and enhance the
vitality of the state.

Our commitment to you is that we will continue to work hard to serve our community and state, and to
always know why we do what we do. And the why will always be because it benefits our students and
our stakeholders - now and in the future.

Dr. Paula Carson

ProvostA/ice President for Academic Affairs

A generous $1 million gift for the establishment of the Debra and David Humphreys Excellence Award was announced in January.

The Humphreys are known for their support for education in the region. David Humphreys has served as the Chief Executive Officer
and President of Joplin-based TAMKO Building Products since 1994, a company which his grandfather started in 1944. He and
his wife, Debra, played an integral role in the establishment of Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School, an independent, private
school founded in Joplin in 1993. Debra serves as chair of the schools Board of Trustees.

The Debra and David Humphreys Excellence Award will be given to Missouri Southern students over the next 10 years. The annual
recipients of the award - Humphreys Scholars - will be graduates of high schools within 50 miles of Missouri Southern majoring in
biological and physical sciences, mathematics, education, accounting, finance, engineering technology or computer science.

The funds awarded will cover at least 50 percent of their tuition for that school year.

“Missouri Southern State University serves a vital role making a college education available and affordable in our community,” said
the Humphreys. “We hope that our scholarship gift will help offset the financial burden of tuition and enable more students from
Joplin and surrounding areas to obtain their college degree from MSSU.”

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FIRST YOURS TO LOSE
COHORT ACCEPTED

Twenty-six incoming freshmen from across the midwest have
been accepted into the Yours to Lose - Advanced Medical
School Acceptance Program, which will launch its first class at
the start of the Fall 2017 semester.

An exclusive partnership with the Kansas City University of
Medicine and Biosciences, the program allows a cohort of
Missouri Southern students to be admitted to KCU’s new
Joplin medical school at the same time they are accepted to
MSSU. As pre-med students, they will obtain their bachelor’s
degree in biology during an accelerated, three-year course of
study before seamlessly transitioning into their first year of
medical school. The program will not require them to take the
Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).

“This program adds a fantastic dimension to what Missouri
Southern offers to these future physicians,” said Dr. Richard
Schooler, Dean of the School of Health Sciences at MSSU. “We
feel that this program, along with other tracks, makes Missouri
Southern the place to come for pre-med education.”

Prospective members of the cohort visited campus this spring
for interviews and to learn more about Missouri Southern.

“The intent of this program was to do something special to
attract high-performing students who wanted to go into
medicine to Missouri Southern,” said Schooler. “Whats unique
about this program is it’s designed around that student . . . who,
from Day 1, know they’re going on to medical school.”

Scholarships for students in the Yours to Lose program received
a boost in December, thanks to a generous donations from the
Joplin Tomorrow corporation.

Formed following the devastating tornado of May 22, 2011,
the non-profit was developed with the backing of Sen. John C.
Danforth to accept donations and provide low-interest loans
to businesses recovering from the disaster. Approximately $1.6
million was raised from donors across the country, and 24 loans
were approved by the Joplin Tomorrow Board of Directors for
businesses to rebuild and expand.

With their work complete, the board voted to transfer its
remaining $700,000 in assets to be used for scholarships for
future medical students.

GROUNDBREAKING HELD
FOR NIXON HALL

Former Missouri Gov. Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon was the special
guest at a late November groundbreaking ceremony for a new
building that will bear his name at Missouri Southern.

Last fall, Missouri Southern’s Board of Governors voted
unanimously to name the new building for Nixon, citing his
efforts to garner bipartisan support for the project as well as his
support for Joplin following the 2011 tornado.

In June, the governor signed two bills providing more than $16
million in funding for the current renovation of Reynolds Hall
as well as a new building.

Located on the south side of Reynolds Hall, Nixon Hall will be
connected via a skywalk off the main hall of Reynolds’ second
floor. Designed by Paragon Architecture, the three-story,
nearly 20,000-square-foot building will feature classrooms and
offices, primarily for STEM-field programs.

RIBBON-CUTTING
HELD FOR LION
CUB ACADEMY

A ribbon-cutting in late March
marked the grand opening of
Missouri Southern’s Lion Cub
Academy: A Child Development
Center.

The center, formerly known as
the Child Development Center
and located in Taylor Hall, is now housed in the Joplin Regional
Center building at 3600 Newman Road. Extensive renovations
have created more space for the program as well as unique
learning opportunities for both students and children.

“We’ve gone from being licensed for 59 kids a day to 92 a day,”
said Nikki Tappana, director of Lion Cub Academy. “Our new
facility is amazing, and we’re thrilled to be able to offer this
kind of learning experience to our children.”

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One of the most unique features of the Lion Cub Academy is
the natural outdoor classroom, she said.

“Research shows that if children don’t spend enough time
outside, it can affect their educational development,” said
Tappana. “We’ve received a Farm to Preschool grant so we
can raise some of our own vegetables. The grant came with
educational supplies for children and we’ve purchased some
raised beds.”

The center provides care for children of students, faculty, staff
and alumni.

DISNEY INTERNSHIP
PROGRAM ESTABLISHED

Thanks to a new partnership, Missouri Southern students now
have the opportunity to earn college credit at the “Happiest
Place on Earth.”

Eligible students can apply for an internship through the
Disney College program, which offers a wide variety of
academic opportunities, said Dr. Richard Miller, dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences.

To earn credit for the experience, students must be at least a
junior and have a minimum of a 2.5 GPA, said Miller. Disney -
which hosts thousands of interns each year - will match interns
up with an appropriate position. For more information, visit
http://cp.disneycareers.com.

GANDY, SCRIVNER
HONORED

Two members of the Lion family were
recognized this spring for their service to
the community.

Alex Gandy, director of Career Services,
received the 2016 Campaign Volunteer
of the Year Award from the United Way
of Southwest Missouri and Southeast
Kansas. The award is given in recognition
of exceptional community service and
dedication to the community. Gandy served
as a member of Missouri Southern’s United
Way Fundraising Committee.

Stacie Scrivner, director/department chair of Missouri
Southern’s Dental Hygiene program, was recently honored
among the 2017 Salute to Health Care class by the Joplin
Regional Business Journal. The recognition is in honor of
“the service and influence of professionals in the health
care community,” according to the publication. Honorees
were featured in a March edition of the Business Journal
and at a dinner held March 30.

CROSSROADS MAGAZINE | SPRING 2017

CELEBRATION OF

KOREAN

CULTURE

PLANNED FOR FALL 2017

By Dr. Chad Stebbins | Director, Institute of Internationa! Studies

Missouri Southern will celebrate the 20th anniversary of our nationally recognized themed semester
program in Fall 2017 with the Korea Semester.

A faculty and student committee has been planning the events throughout the spring semester.
The committee includes two Korean faculty members, Dr. Hyunjung Kim (communication) and
Dr. Kyung Joe (management), and a student, Lauren Lant, who spent a semester at Sangmyung
University in Seoul.

A TASTE
OF HOME

Korean constituents
look forward to
themed semester

While he's been getting a taste of American
culture as a visiting professor in the School
of Business, Dr. Kyung Joe is excited that the
campus will learn about his country during
the Korea Semester in the fall.

“There is no exposure to Korea in this area,
so I would like them to experience Korean
culture; the Korea Semester is a casual way
of introducing that,” says Joe. Food, Korean
Thanksgiving, traditional plays and karaoke
are among some of the cultural highlights he
hopes the campus will enjoy.

Other members of the campus community
who call Korea home expressed their
excitement for the Korea Semester and
shared some of the cultural differences
they’ve noticed during their time at Missouri
Southern.

While the semesters focus will be on South Korea (the Republic of Korea), we do not want to
overlook the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea). Its hardly a Democratic nation;
its totalitarian dictatorship and human rights abuses make it one of the most repressive nations that
ever existed. Still, we cannot ignore the slightly larger, northern half of the Korean Peninsula and its
impact on the Asia-Pacific Region and the U.S. -Chinese relationship.

“There is more diversity here,” says Dr.
Hyunjung Kim, an assistant professor in the
Communications Department. “The students
in my Intercultural Communication class are
the most culturally diverse class.”

We will celebrate the visual and music culture of South Korea, its innovative technology, the Korean
martial art of taekwondo, Korea’s unique alphabet (Hangul), and certainly the wonderful culture
of Korean cuisine. The chef from Jin’s Korean Grill in Springfield, Mo., will provide a cooking
demonstration and share samples of his specialties. We’ll also show some of the most popular
Korean films throughout the semester.

We’ll tackle some serious issues, too, such as the prospects of reunification with North Korea (One
Korea), life near the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), defectors from North Korea and the
religions and spirituality of the Korean Peninsula.

The English Department is in the process of selecting a “common reader,” a book that will be read by
students enrolled in composition classes. If it can be arranged, the author will be brought to campus
in November to give presentations and to sign copies.

The Southern Symphony Orchestra’s contribution to the Korea Semester will be to provide an original
arrangement, for string orchestra and piano, of “Arirang” - the Korean folk melody (recognized in
both Koreas) as roughly the equivalent of “America, the Beautiful.” Dr. Jeffrey Macomber,
orchestra director, is completing the arrangement.

The Southern Jazz Combo, under the direction of Dr. Phillip Wise,
will perform an original composition for jazz ensemble based
on traditional Korean folk music. The work will be
premiered during the fall concert.

Exchange student Diana Kang says she
came to Missouri Southern through a
connection with the university she previously
attended in Korea.

“People are very kind here and take really
good care of me,” she says. “Everyone says
hi! In Korea, that does not happen. People
here make eye contact.”

Korean Thanksgiving is something Kang
hopes Americans can learn more about
during the Korea semester. It is known as
‘Hangawi,’ which means the 15th day of
August according to the lunar calendar.
Families gather at the home of their parents
or grandparents and prepare a traditional
meal, including rice cakes. Tradition holds
that whoever makes the best rice cakes will
have a pretty baby.

Joe, Kim and Kang each expressed hope
that events such as the Korea Semester can
help bridge the gap between cultures, and
that people can come to understand that
they have more in common than they do dif¬
ferences.

More than 100 business leaders and Plaster School of Business alumni packed the North
End Zone Facility for MOSO Monday on March 6. MOSO Mondays are on-campus alumni
events featuring news and updates from each of our four schools. MOSO Mondays
featuring the School of Education and School of Health Sciences were held in the fall

semester.

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This spring, more than 50 alumni and friends were on hand to socialize and hear University updates at Cooper's Hawk
Winery on The Plaza in Kansas City. Additional alumni events are planned for Springfield, Northwest Arkansas, St. Louis,
KC and others. Be sure to update your contact info by emailing alumniassoc@mssu.edu and receive information on
upcoming events in your area.

Alumni director
receives
Athena Award
from Carthage
Chamber

Lee Elliff Pound, director of the Mis¬
souri Southern Alumni Association,
was the recipient of the Athena Lead¬
ership Award during the recent 2017
Carthage Chamber of Commerce
Banquet.

“It was a very nice surprise,” says
Pound. “The award is beautiful.”

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The nationally recognized award is
presented in honor of “professional
excellence, community service and
for actively assisting women in their
attainment of professional excellence
and leadership skills,” according to the
Athena International website. The lo¬
cal award is sponsored by the Ruth I.
Kolpin Foundation and SMB Bank.

In addition to her duties with the
Alumni Association, Pound serves
as secretary of the Carthage School
Board, vice president of the Carthage
Community Foundation, a member
of the artCentral and Carthage R-9
Foundation boards, and a member of
Chapter AP of PEO (Philanthropic Ed¬
ucational Organization), the Mimosa
Garden Club, the Shakespeare Society
and is an alumnae of Delta Gamma. In
2015, she was selected as one of 2015 s
Most Influential Women by the Joplin
Regional Business Journal.

LIONS IN KC!

NEW ALUMNI AWARDS

TO DEBUT WITH HOMECOMING

The Alumni Association is expanding the number of annual awards rec¬
ognizing exceptional alumni and friends of Missouri Southern.

Beginning with Homecoming 2017 - set for September 25-30 - the fol¬
lowing awards will be presented:

DISTINGUISHED ALUM AWARD

The Distinguished Alumnus Award will recognize a graduate who has
achieved remarkable success in their profession and/or has made out¬
standing contributions to their community, state or nation. Nominees
must be at least 25 years from their date of graduation.

OUTSTANDING ALUM AWARD

The Outstanding Alumnus Award will recognize a graduate who has
achieved remarkable success in their profession and/or has made out¬
standing contributions to their community, state or nation. To be eligi¬
ble, nominees must have graduated between 10 and 24 years ago.

OUTSTANDING FAMILY AWARD

The MSSU Outstanding Family Award will be given to a multi-genera¬
tional family of Missouri Southern Lions. The family must have made a
significant impact on the university. Only current students who are in a
second or more generation of Joplin Junior College, MSSC or MSSU are
able to nominate their family.

LION-HEARTED AWARD

The Lion-Hearted Award will be presented to an individual who em¬
bodies the true heart and soul of Lion spirit and has made significant
contributions to the institution, either through financial or voluntary
assistance. Nominees do not have to be graduates of Missouri Southern.

SPIRIT OF SERVICE AWARD

The Spirit of Service Award will be given to an alumnus who consistent¬
ly makes significant contributions to the communities in which they
live through their time, actions, talents and dedication. This award does
not factor in service to Missouri Southern, but rather to the commu¬
nities in which the nominee lives. Nominations for those outside the
Joplin area will be accepted and encouraged.

We need your help in nominating deserving MSSU Alumni for these
awards! To nominate someone, please visit the “Alumni and Giving”
page at www.mssu.edu or email alumniassoc@mssu.edu.

MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY

ALUMNI GATHER
FOR JOPLIN
JUNIOR COLLEGE

More than 150 former students and guests
gathered for the first-ever Joplin Junior Col¬
lege reunion, held March 31.

The reunion kicked off with visitors becom¬
ing reacquainted with what is now Memori¬
al Education Center at 310 W. Eighth St., be¬
fore a historical presentation by Brad Belk,
director of the Joplin Museum Complex.

"We look forward to having
more reunions for this special
group of alumni."

Initially housed in 1937 at that location
(then Joplin High School), the junior col¬
lege found a new home at Fourth Street and
Byers Avenue in 1938. It would later move
back to its original building. The college re¬
mained at that location until transitioning
into a four-year school in 1967 at the former
Mission Hills estate (now Missouri South¬
ern State University).

Reunion activities resumed at the Scottish
Rite Cathedral, with a social hour, dinner
and special program.

“The Joplin Junior College reunion was a
terrific opportunity to gather our alumni
from our first graduating class of 1939 to the
late 1960s,” said Lee Elliff Pound, Director
of Alumni and Constituent Relations. “Ev¬
eryone had a great time reminiscing and we
had a wonderful response to this event. We
look forward to having more reunions for
this special group of alumni.”

Missouri Southern grad forges a path in competitive dogsledding

The team is restless; eager to be on the move.

The five dogs - Ruger, Denali, Calypso, Prudhoe and K2 - are
harnessed and ready, whining and shuffling their feet as they
wait for the signal from their owners to start running.

And when it comes, they take off down the trail, pulling the
bright yellow racing rig behind it. Behind the wheel is Nick Weis,
offering his dryland mushing team encouragement as they pick
up speed.

Seeing this team of sled dogs on the move isn’t an uncommon
sight along the Frisco Highline Trail north of Springfield, Mo.
Weis and his wife, Joy, will often bring them out to train when
the weather is nice.

The 2009 Missouri Southern graduates say raising sled dogs and
participating in the racing circuit was never their intention. The
hobby simply snowballed as a result of their love for the animals.

One, two, three ...

As a child, Nick Weis always wanted a dog . . . but not just any dog
would do. He wanted a malamute - a large, powerful Arctic breed
known for its ability to haul heavy freight across rough terrain.

Wanting and getting are two different things, however.

“My parents never let me get one,” he says. “We always got our
dogs from a shelter. We ended up getting a dog named Lucky
found as a stray.

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“Fast forward 14 and a half years and Lucky was living with me and
my wife, and I noticed that he was really slowing down. My brother
has a German short hair mix, about 2 years old. When he came over
with him, Lucky would get up and go play. I thought it would be a
good idea to get a puppy and it was time to get a malamute.”

“In the summer it can get pretty warm, so we 11 train when its cool
enough,” he says. “Sometimes they’ll train as a team by pulling an
ATV or the dryland rig, which is a cross between a mountain bike
and a tricycle. That’s what a lot of people who have dog- sled teams
in warmer climates use to train.”

They adopted Ruger, whose high-energy nature quickly became
apparent.

“If he didn’t get out and run, he was going to destroy our house,”
says Weis. “I started running with him and doing some research to
find better ways for Ruger to get exercise. I learned about canicross
- which is basically a discipline of dog sledding, where you run
cross country with your dog.”

Weis, who ran track and cross country at Missouri Southern before
being sidelined by an injury, immediately took to canicross.

Weis secured a first-place win during a recent competition in
Wisconsin, but didn’t fare as well during a race in Quebec.

“We had a little bit of difficulty,” he says. “That was the furthest we
have gone for a competition and the dogs didn’t travel as well as we
hoped. But it was the biggest race in North America, so we can’t be
too disappointed.”

On this unseasonably warm spring afternoon, Weis is training for
an upcoming race in New Jersey.

“My wife saw how much fun I was having and she decided she
wanted a dog, too,” he says.

Enter Denali. Then the question became, “Why not three dogs?”
Meet Calypso. Then, as the snowball effect continued, came Prudhoe
and K2.

“We’ve added about one dog a year,” says Weis. “We have six dogs
now . . . five that are sled dogs.”

For canicross events, Weis wears a waist belt that is hooked to one
of the dogs, allowing them to run together. For dryland mushing
events, the dogs are harnessed together to work as a team as they
pull the rig.

While Ruger is a purebred malamute, the others are rescues and
husky mixes . . . not as well-suited for covering 10 to 30 miles across
snowy terrain. Therefore, he and his dogs from his Lucky Fox Kennel
in Lebanon, Mo., primarily focus on canicross events.

“To do well, you have to be a good runner and have a dog that listens
well,” he says.

A stronger bond

Weis, who works as an investment manager in Lebanon, Mo., was
recently named as an alternate for the U.S. national canicross team
in the dryland competition. The world championships will be held
in November in Poland.

“Races are typically two-day events,” says Weis. “They’re anywhere
from 1.2 to 5 miles. You run on a Saturday and then run Sunday and
the judges combine the times together over two days to determine
who was the fastest.”

Depending on the weather, Weis runs with his dogs five to seven
days a week.

The five dogs are noticeably more relaxed afterward, having
expended some of their pent-up energy along the trail. They eagerly
drink up as their owners stop by each one with a cooler of water and
some well-earned treats.

“We come down here almost every weekend when it’s warm
enough,” says Joy Weis.

“Everyone knows the bond you get with a pet
dog,” he says. “But it’s so much stronger when
you’re working toward a common goal.

My dogs and I are up at 4 a.m. every
morning to train ... the bond is so
much more.”

While Nick enjoys the competitive aspect of
canicross and mush racing, it’s the love for his dogs
that makes it all worthwhile.

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at Missouri Southern

Fifty years in the classroom . . . that’s aquite an accomplishment.

“Is it?” asks Dr. Conrad Gubera, professor of sociology. “I guess I’m
undervaluing it, or taking it for granted. You get up, do what you’re
supposed to do and then go home every day. The days blend into weeks,
the weeks into months, months into semesters, semesters into years
and years into decades. To me, you just do it.

“An accomplishment . . . well, I can say that I still get the same thrill I did
when I first started teaching.”

Gubera, a professor of sociology, is marking his 50th year of teaching at
Missouri Southern, having come to the new campus in 1967 as it was
getting off the ground. Engage him in conversation about his time at
Southern, and it’s easy to get caught up in the sweep of history - both
on campus and nationally.

Below are excerpts from a recent conversation with Dr. Gubera.

The ‘60s -

A graduate of Pierce City High School he studied at Joplin Junior
College before completing his bachelors degree in 1962. It was while
teaching at Mount Vernon High School that he was first approached by
Dr. Leon Billingsly about a teaching position at Joplin Junior College ,
which was on the verge of transitioning into a four-year program on a
new campus.

“I first met Dr. Billingsly during a pickup basketball game in Mount
Vernon. He took his shoes off, loosened his tie and took off his coat. I
decked him the first time, and I could tell he didn’t like it. He was very
competitive. I didn’t see the light of day from there on out.”

Gubera taught history and sociology from 1963-65 at Joplin High
School and then took Billingsly up on his offer to help launch the
sociology program at Missouri Southern.

“The ‘60s were such an exciting time, when we were beginning to ask
some real questions. Sociology was the No. 1 course on college campuses
in the mid-c60s. We looked at other college catalogs to see the courses
they offered in sociology. We wanted to offer courses that could transfer
to our sister schools in the state and build our accreditation on that.”

“As president, Dr. Billingsly could make a decision and was really good
at handling people. He was able to get things done with the Missouri
Legislature ... he had an informal relationship with them that I’ve never
seen another college president have.”

“There was a consciousness among students in the 1960s that we don’t
quite have today. We first came onto this campus right before (the Tet
Offensive) in 1968. At the heart of 1967 was the draft. They didn’t have
a lottery yet, so there were students trying to do anything they could to
keep out of the draff.”

“Everybody remembered where they were when they heard about
Kennedy’s assassination. We were still fresh in the memory of that,
then there were the two assassinations in ’68 (Bobby Kennedy and
Martin Luther King, Jr.), and certainly that awful Democratic National
Convention in 1968.”

The ‘70s -

“The war was still driving everything. Students on campus did a bit of
demonstrating. We held a public forum here to debate the war, with two
of the youngest professors on campus (including myself) and two of the
oldest.”

“In 1975, there were rumors that the college would be closed and be
made into a state prison. That was right before the state system took
over and we began to rise from the ashes, so to speak.”

The ‘80s -

Following the death of Dr. Billingsly in 1978 , Dr. Donald C. Darnton
became Missouri Southerns president. After his three-year tenure ,
the campus would look closer to home when it came time to select a
new president - Dr. Julio Leon , a faculty member from the School of
Business who later served as its dean.

“(Leon) was fun, he was inventive and creative and he was listening.
We’d grown up with him, and he ran a damn good ship. Everyone
wanted him to succeed and he did a great job. He and I didn’t agree on
some things, but he always supported me.”

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The ‘90s -

By the end of the 1980s , many on campus had started looking
outward to gain an international perspective, says Gubera.

“I got my first international grant to go to Jordan and Egypt. We
started a summer in Oxford program that lasted for about a dozen
years. In 1991, I visited the Palestinian territories, Jerusalem,
Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.”

“In 1990, the Social Sciences Department had a colloquial on the
fall of the Berlin Wall. In ’91, there was another on the death of the
Soviet Union, and in ’93 it was about the peace accords between
Israel and Palestine. Dr. Leon watched those very carefully and the
coverage that they received.

“The state of Missouri had announced that each college should have
a specialized mission, and Dr. Leon announced that ours would be
global. He thought it was a really good match for our campus and
would give us distinction. The International Piano Competition . . .
looking back, that was a marvelous thing. It was outstanding for
this campus to have that kind of recognition.”

The 2000s -

While students in the 1960s were deeply affected by Kennedy's
assassination, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, rocked the world view
of a new generation.

“9/11 was almost like ‘Star Wars’ The massiveness of it was
incomprehensible. How can you imagine those buildings falling? If
you stood beside them and looked up as I did any number of times,
you think, ‘They have to be one of the wonders of the world.’ And
then they collapse in a day? When students talk about it, it’s like
they’re talking about a giant disaster film.”

In December 2016, Gubera was invited to give the commencement
address for Missouri Southerns 67th graduating class. In his speech,
he touched on his years of teaching, memorable faculty members,
his pride in having all four of his children attend MSSU and his
hopes for them in the future.

Looking back, Gubera says hes pleased with how the university
has developed over the years.

“In our first 10 years, we played it pretty fast and loose as we
piecemealed the program together. Our students are far better than
they were then, and our classes are far better now.

“We have some of the very best students I’ve seen in my entire life
at Missouri Southern today. I just got out of my Sociology of Death
and Dying class. I got one sentence on the board and the students
were already elaborating on that and taking it to new levels.”

And then comes the inevitable question ... What next?

“I’m beginning to think about retirement. I set my goal to retire
with the first 50-year class here, in 2019. I think that would be a
good time to exit.”

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"I can say that I still
get the same thrill
I did when I first
started teaching

KEEPING AN
ION PROGRESS

Reynolds renovations bring big improvements
to chemistry, physical science programs

With renovations to the third floor of Reynolds Hall completed, students
returning for the Spring 2017 semester finally got a look at the new classrooms
and lab areas.

“As one of the Lab preppers for the General Chemistry classes, I see how much
better the new labs are,” said Cole Corlett, senior biochemistry major. “We have
more counter space and the new hoods are fantastic.

“The student lounge is also a big plus because if Im working on homework, my
professors are just down the hall.”

Reynolds became the second campus building ready for occupancy when it was
completed in May of 1967. An expansion in 1988 nearly doubled its size.

Last year, former Gov. Jay Nixon announced funding to allow for much needed
renovations to the building, which houses the biology, environmental health,
physical science and mathematics programs. House Bill 19 provided $5.2 million
for the project, while House Bill 17 contained an additional $1.5 million, which
was matched by private contributions from alumni and other sources.

The newly renovated third floor features physics, chemistry and geology labs, a
study area equipped with Wi-Fi and hard- wired data drops, a tiered lecture hall
and faculty offices, as well as new equipment.

Dr. Marsi Archer, chair of the Chemical and Physical Sciences Department, said
the new labs provide a safer environment and one that is more conducive to
learning.

“Before, we provided a really good education in spite of our surroundings,” said
Archer. “Now our surroundings enhance the learning experience.”

She and Corlett both cited the new DSR Raman spectrometer as one of the more
exciting additions to the building. The device is used in chemistry to provide a
fingerprint by which molecules can be identified.

Having completed work on the third floor, renovation work proceeded to the
first floor, which will primarily house biology labs, classrooms and offices. Those
classes were moved to a temporary home in the nearly 13,000-square-foot
Reynolds Annex building, located on the southwest side of campus.

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Meet Dr. David Penning - a national expert on scaly species

The massive snake is estimated to have been dozens of feet long ,
and able to exert between 200 and 400 pounds of constriction
pressure per square inch.

Be happy you weren't around to take a stroll during the early
Cenozoic Era. If it were to have gotten ahold of you . . .

“You’re not going to make it,” says Dr. David Penning. “If you
take what exists today and estimate what the Titanoboa could
do, it would be the equivalent of an Abrams tank sitting on your
chest.”

Penning, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and
Environmental Health, recently lent his expertise in the snake
world to “Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts,”
which aired on PBS in November. Penning and other researchers
focused on reconstructing the Titanoboa cerrejonensis and how
it would have behaved.

“Its an extinct snake from about 65 million years ago,” says
Penning. “The question was, cHow does that animal work?5
There’s nothing that size today . . . not even close. But we do have
a range, which can help us predict what Titanoboa might have
been able to do.”

Jaw pieces and other fossils helped researchers reconstruct
the predator’s appearance, while Penning studied constriction
pressure and high-speed striking behavior.

It’s not the first time the instructor - who joined the faculty at
Missouri Southern in the fall of 2016 - has been tabbed to share
his knowledge of snakes and other members of the reptile world.
His interest in the subject stretches all the way back to his youth,
growing up in Lawson, Mo.

“Honestly, when I was younger, I was a little scared of (snakes),”
he says. “But I was intrigued by them. They don’t have arms, they

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don’t have legs, but they’re everywhere and they’re dominant
predators. As a kid, I was really confused by that.

“How do they crawl? How are they going faster than me? And
how can I not catch them?”

That curiosity and interest in unraveling those mysteries
continued through his undergraduate and master’s degree
studies at the University of Central Missouri, and later during
his doctoral research at the University of Louisiana.

Originally, his graduate studies were headed in a different
direction. The pace, however, proved to be a bit slower than he
would have liked.

Penning also has four tortoises
that he keeps as pets. He admits
they're not for everyone.

"It'd be like a dog that is
really high maintenance and will

always be there."

“The initial plan for my master’s degree was to look at the way
tortoises grow, and how they grow differently in captivity,” says
Penning. “It turns out that doing a project on a slow-growing
species in a time limited to two years is probably not the best
way to do it.”

Still, he has four tortoises that he keeps as pets. He admits they’re
not for everyone.

“As far as movement, snakes externally look very simple,” says
Penning. “They’re a tube with a head and a tail. But internally,
they all have roughly 15,000 to 20,000 muscles. The complexity
is absolutely crazy. They have about 200 to 250 vertebrae and
two ribs on each. It’s the muscles pulling back and forth that
allows them to move. They can use their belly scales as little
shovels, allowing them to move, or they can push against things
or sidewind.

“They generally don’t make good pets for people who aren’t all-
in,”’ he says of the species, which can live upwards of 200 years.
“It’d be like a dog that is really high maintenance and will always
be there.

“They’ll go in my will, so hopefully my kids - when I have them
- will really like tortoises.”

“Engineers would love it if we could identify which muscles are
active when they’re moving. They can’t model snake movement
very well because they don’t know what parts are pulling where
in the real thing.”

His studies have also focused on snake strikes and the
misconceptions surrounding them.

“We compared them with cottonmouths and diamondback
rattlesnakes. Harmless snakes strike just as fast. In hindsight, it’s
a thing that’s obvious, but no one had tested it. They all have to
eat. They all have to defend themselves. It makes sense.”

Snakes and other limbless reptiles remain his primary focus, as
well as a subject of intense fascination.

“For about a century, all popular literature and a lot of scientific
literature continued to say that rattlesnakes and vipers are the
fast ones,” says Penning. “Myself, my Ph.D. advisor and an
undergraduate student were studying common black rat snakes
... just common, harmless snakes . . . and filming them striking.

In addition to his research appearing in peer-reviewed and
popular publications, he has been featured on “Prehistoric
Megabeasts: Croc vs. Snake,” which debuted last fall on the
United Kingdom’s Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel’s
Daily Planet” program. The Discovery Channel visited
Penning again in March to film a segment regarding his

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dissertation studies of how snakes eat other snakes that may be
competitors for the same prey.

Also in March, Penning and Brad Moon, an associate professor
at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, published “How the
Kingsnake Earned its Crown: Snake-Eating Snakes are Stronger
than the Snakes They Eat” in The Journal of Experimental
Biology They measured constriction performance by 182
snakes from six species to determine why kingsnakes are able to
generate higher constriction pressures.

While there are no boas or pythons to be found, Penning says
the Southwest Missouri region has its share of snakes.

“There are black rat snakes, king snakes and bull snakes here,” he
says. “There are a lot of native snakes that can constrict. I haven’t
seen any yet, but there are a few different viper species around.”

Penning currently teaches biology courses for majors and non¬
majors and eventually hopes to add herpetology and several
other courses to the schedule.

“I already have three or four undergrads talking about doing
research - venturing into turtles, bite force and all sorts of good
stuff,” he says.

A crew from the Discovery Channel visited MSSU
in March to interview Penning for an upcoming
segment about snakes and their prey.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

He also presented during the 29th meeting of
the Missouri Herpetological Association
in September 2016 at Bull Shoals
Field Station near Kirbyville, Mo., and
at the 43rd meeting of the Kansas J9
Herpetological Society in November
2016 at Rockhurst University in Kansas

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Dr. David Penning gave two presentations at the eighth
World Congress of Herpetology held in August 2016 in
Hangzhou, China.

The presentations were "Hail to the King:
Morphology and Performance of an Intraguild
Predator and their Prey" and "The Scaling
of Bite Force and Constriction Performance
in Kingsnakes: Proximate Determinants and
Correlated Performance."

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SOCIAL

TELL US ABOUT
YOUR MOST

MEMORABLE

INSTRUCTOR

IN SPECIAL MEMORY OF
DR. KIP HETH

i Hands down my most memorable
moments were with my biology
professor w io recently

passed away. He was so passionate
about the environment and biology
) that it inspired me to go down the
same path that he did. My very first
semester in Bio 101 we spent a day
cleaning out the biology pond of
invasive species and the little
wooded area behind it. We would
^ spend lab days outside learning
about nature. In Bio 111 we did
studies on local creeks and the
precious MSSU prairie. Today I'm a
senior at MSSU pursuing a degree in
ecology/conservation/biology. I wish
I could go back in time to thank him
for being such an important teacher
in my life.

FAWN HAITH

Hands down, without a doubt, Mrs. Charlotte Olinger Hopper. She was one of my first
instructors when I made the plunge back into college after 20 years out. She was the
best blend of accepting of all of us stuck in a Comp 202 night class, and tough enough
to push us to exceed our notions of what we thought we could accomplish. She could
discuss everything from the baseball game on that night to the "Sherlock" TV series.
Her class helped me decide to go from part time to full time and I’ve never looked back!
Forever thankful for her Comp 202 class.

KAETLYN TAUNTON

Dr. Mike Lawson has got to be one of the best professors that I've ever had. His tests
were always really hard, but he always made sure you knew what you were talking about.
I've used a lot of what I've learned on the PCAT and now I'm even applying the
knowledge in Med. Chem. II at UMKC Pharmacy School. I can't thank him enough for
being hard on us. Professors like him help students like us move on to bigger and better
things.

One of my most memorable instructors so far has been Dr. Steven Wagner. While I
have never been one to love the subject of history, he made it interesting to me. It
always felt as if he was simply telling us great stories rather than just trying to get us to
memorize dates, people and events.

REX J BURTRUM II

Dr. Conrad Gubera will always be my favorite memory from MSSU! He not only kept
the class hanging on his every word, but his occasional pun would lighten the lectures
to no end. He taught you the truth and didn't sugarcoat the details. Made classes that I
actually looked forward to attending and assignments that I enjoyed completing.

BRAYDEN KYGER

Brett Peine and everyone else in the EMS education program. I learned more than just
patient care and skills and knowledge to do so. I learned that your instructors and class
mates become family and you can talk to them about anything that is going on in your
life and they are willing to listen.

THEY'RE DRESSED TO

IMPRESS

Professional clothing drive helps Lions look their best

Emerging from Billingsly Student Centers Connor Ballroom with several neatly wrapped
clothing items on hangers, Lisa Deese calls her shopping trip a success.

“There was a personal assistant to walk you around and help pick out clothes,” the senior
nursing major says. “And for the girls, there were shoes and all kinds of accessories ... hand
bags, jewelry, scarves - its the full ensemble for a woman, which is great.”

Deese - who says the clothing will come in handy for job interviews and an upcoming Model
EU event - was among more than 200 students who attended Dress to Impress
on March 15. The annual event helps students and alumni expand their
professional wardrobes to prepare for the Spring Career Fair, job interviews
and other activities. Donated clothing filled the racks lining the ballroom,
with volunteers available to help visitors pick out items to wear.

The program is a joint effort between Missouri Southern and the Joplin Area
Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Network.

Alex Gandy, director of Career Services, says donations for the third annual
Dress to Impress were plentiful this year.

“We had more shoes donated than ever before,” he says. “Shoes are a very
expensive item . . . one of the bigger obstacles for students when they’re going
into the professional workforce.

“We also had a lot of great suits for guys. Dr. Al Cade (who passed away in
2015), his old wardrobe was donated to us. That was very, very special.”

All items that were not selected by students were donated to Crosslines
Ministries. The non-profit organization in Joplin maintains a collection of
professional clothing for those that they serve.

Martha Getz, communications coordinator for the chamber, has volunteered
for Dress to Impress every year since the event was launched.

“It really is a transformative experience for a lot of these students,” she says.
“Several commented this morning that all they have in their closets are
T-shirts and jeans. They’ve never owned a three-piece suit or had a pencil
skirt and heels before.

“You can watch their confidence build as they come out of the fitting room
and see what the next step in their life is going to be like.”

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BEACON

Junior Haley Henry receives
annual award named for Dr. Al Cade

Missouri Southern junior health promotion and wellness major Haley Henry
is this years recipient of the Dr. Al Cade Beacon of Hope Service Award.

The award, instituted last year, was presented at the annual MLK Day
Celebration Breakfast on Jan. 16 at Missouri Southern.

The annual award is named for Cade, longtime Missouri Southern faculty
member and Dean of the School of Education, who passed away after a long
battle with cancer in 2015. Cade was well-known for his service to others.

“I was so honored and taken aback when I was told about the award,” says
Henry, who was nominated by kinesiology faculty member Dr. Andrea Cullers.

“I’ve always had a passion for helping people with any kind of disability,” says
Henry, who is working toward a career in pediatric occupational therapy. “One
summer I had an A+ class position that involved taking kids with physical and
mental challenges to therapy. I saw the impact of the clinicians work and fell
in love with the idea of helping people to be the best they can be.”

Henry is a Resident Assistant on the Missouri Southern campus. She also is
the vice-president of the Caduceus Club, a campus organization designed for
students contemplating careers related to medicine. In that position, she has
helped bring healthcare professionals to campus to talk to students.

For the past year, she has been heavily involved in an organization called Love
Your Melon, which is dedicated to fighting cancer. She currently heads up the
organizations local public relations efforts.

Love Your Melon, originally started by two high-school students, makes
beanies, caps and hats. Fifty percent of profits from hat sales goes to pediatric
cancer research. Also, for every piece of headgear that is sold, a hat is given to
a child battling cancer.

Henry has also volunteered in the childrens ministry and helped with other
events at the New Site Baptist Church in Monett. Since 2015, she has donated
her time to efforts closer to Joplin including the Ronald McDonald House, the
Watered Gardens homeless shelter, Lafayette House and the Victory for Haiti
Mission.

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IN EDUCATION

Elke Howe came to the United States planning to stay for only a
year, but - to Missouri Southerns benefit - it didn’t work out that
way.

The professor and department head of Engineering Technology is
the 2017 recipient of the Missouri Governors Award for Excellence
in Education. She was honored at a ceremony in Jefferson City on
April 5.

Howe, who grew up in Germany, says her interest in engineering
technology sprang out of a love for chemistry.

“I got a certificate related to chemistry,” she says. “Later, I found
chemistry helped me a great deal when I was studying plastics
engineering. I also loved math so it was a good combination of
skills.”

She moved to the United States in 1989, originally planning only to
stay about one year. Her husband came to attend flight school at
Fort Scott, Kan., before returning to Germany to find work.

“I arrived with three suitcases and a bicycle,” she says. “In the end,
we decided to stay. It’s interesting how things develop, especially
when you’re young and feel you can do almost anything.”

Howe, a Six Sigma Black Belt, has a bachelor’s degree in engineering
technology and a master’s in business administration. She later
obtained her doctorate in education from the University of
Arkansas. Before coming to Missouri Southern in 2001, Howe
worked as a sales engineer for MAMTC in Pittsburg, Kan., and
as a process engineer for U.S. Precision Lens headquartered in
Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education is
presented to an outstanding faculty member from each of Missouri’s
four-year higher-education institutions.

“I am humbled, honored, and grateful to receive this award,
especially because I work with colleagues who are just as deserving,”
Howe says. “I feel privileged to work at Missouri Southern and to
be able to make a difference in students’ lives as a teacher, advisor
and mentor.”

When Teatro Travieso presented its acclaimed production
of “Women of Ciudad Juarez” in January, it marked a
homecoming for director Jimmy Noriega.

While he had been involved in theater as far back as an
elementary student, it was at Missouri Southern that he
realized his potential as a director.

“I started out (at Missouri Southern) as an actor,” he says. “But
I took a directing class and realized I had a strength. It gave
me the confidence to do it and the awareness of something I
was good at.”

“Women of Ciudad Juarez” gives voice to the voiceless - the
countless female murder victims from Juarez, Mexico. From
mothers and daughters, factory workers and prostitutes,
family members and police investigators, the play speaks
out against what the production notes call “a gross display of
injustice.”

The original production - written by Mexican actress Cristina
Michaus - was staged in monologue form as a one-woman
show. It ran for more than six months and toured throughout
Mexico over the next decade.

“I directed it originally in Spanish in 2011,” says Noriega.
“With the theater company I founded, Teatro Travieso
(Troublemaker Theatre), I debuted the English version in
2014.”

When adapting it into English, Noriega fleshed the work out
to feature four actresses.

“Each actress plays two or three characters,” he says. “I
worked to connect the dots between which roles they play. I
had the option the first time of using professional actresses,
but I wanted to use women young enough for them to relate
to the audience.”

Since the English versions debut, the play has been performed
28 times in the U.S., Canada and Belgium, including shows at
Dartmouth College, Yale University and Cornell University.
In 20 1 5, Teatro Travieso received an award for Making Theatre
an Important Catalyst for Sociopolitical Change during the
Kennedy Center s American College Theater Festival.

“The performance at Southern started our fourth year of
the tour,” says Noriega. “I never imagined it would be such a
long-term production.”

In addition to serving as director of the theater company,
Noriega serves as an associate professor of theater at the
College of Wooster in Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in theater
arts in 2011 from Cornell University.

The level of success he has found with the production comes
as little surprise to his former professors, says Anne Jaros
- associate professor of theater at Missouri Southern and
current chair of the department.

“Jimmy was an outstanding student, and we knew he was
going to do something wonderful,” she says. “He was always
driven to success.

“He was very good at finding a way to do the things he wanted
to get done. We always trusted him to do a good job, and he
never disappointed. He was the kind of student every teacher
wants to have in class.”

Noriega says he was excited to return to Southern, and for
the opportunity to meet with current theater students to talk
about his experiences.

“Southern is where I started learning about direction,” he
says. “The last production I directed there would have been
in 2005. It was kind of exciting to bring my most successful
show to the place where I started.”

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Consultant Greg Arend, '82, delivers
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Greg Arend is
no stranger to crisis.

A 1982 Missouri Southern graduate who now lives
in Tulsa, Okla., Arend works for Deloitte, a global
network of business consulting firms that provide audit,
financial advisory, risk management, tax and related
services to clients.

He was Deloittes lead client service partner during the
housing and mortgage crisis that began in 2008-09.
He worked with client executives and members of the
legislative and executive branches to address complex
issues facing the banking and housing industries.

ccThe banking crisis was very chaotic,” Arend says.
“The government was out of money. Had Uncle Sam
not stepped in and raised ceilings and taken actions to
provide liquidity to the marketplace, it could have been
far worse.”

Other catastrophes addressed by Arend, on behalf of
Deloitte clients, were California’s Northridge earthquake,
hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and Joplin s 2011 tornado.

All of those disasters, he says, possessed one major
commonality.

“Whenever there is significant financial loss, there will be
lots of money coming in at incredible speed in incredible
amounts,” he says. “Visualize it like a rainstorm. The
money is raining down. The chance for waste, fraud and
abuse skyrockets. Our job is to get the money out the
door in a controlled atmosphere and make sure it gets to
the people who need it.”

Arend, who graduated from Missouri Southern magna
cum laude with an accounting degree, returned to
campus to deliver the keynote address during Spring
2017 Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 13.

Over the last decade, Arend has also become a recognized
leader and advocate on the importance of diversity and
inclusion in creating high-performance teams.

“Its become a big part of who I am personally,” he says.
“For the first couple of decades, I was fairly oblivious to
the whole topic of diversity. Then I moved from Tulsa,
one of the least diverse areas of the nation, to Washington,
D.C., arguably one of the most diverse cities in the U.S.,
if not the world.”

He says a move across the country expanded his
perspective.

“When I got there, I saw that my teams consisted of all
different types of people, just a melting pot of folks. I
absolutely personally grew. It helped me to understand
their perspectives, their journeys ... It evolved me as a
person, as well as a professional.”

Having since returned to Tulsa, Arend was recognized in
2015 as a Man of Distinction by Tulsa Business and Legal
News. He was also given special recognition by Secretary
of Labor Elaine Chao for the Labor Departments
American Heroes at Work Initiative, and received a 2012
Outstanding Leaders Award from the federal Audit and
Enterprise Risk Services organization.

Arend, who grew up in the Southwest Missouri
community of Monett, married his wife, Linda, during
his senior year of college at Missouri Southern. The two
are parents of a grown daughter, Lacey.

“My world pretty much revolves around Linda and
Lacey,” he says.

If a young person came to Arend and said he or she
wanted to be a leader, what would his advice be?

“No. 1, be true to yourself,” he says. “No. 2, follow your
passions. Decide what you want to lead and how you
want to lead it, and remember to set the mark high.
Some people are great managers but not great leaders.
You need to make people want to follow you. That’s what
it takes to be a leader.”

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Freshman Autumn Roberts
puts black-belt skills to work

As she nears pro-fighter status, Autumn Roberts - a freshman criminal justice
major from Springfield - is passing on her knowledge to others on campus.

The 18-year-old teaches a kickboxing class - a combination of karate and kick¬
boxing - two days a week in Missouri Southerns Beimdiek Recreation Center.
Roberts says her interest in the sports emerged from being one of three adopted
children among seven brothers and sisters.

“My mother wanted to do something to unify us as a family, so she enrolled us in
taekwondo,” Roberts says. “My instructor, Richard Osborn, is a former kickboxer.
He saw something in me and wanted to train me. That’s how it all began.”

Roberts says she trained for about eight months before winning her first competi¬
tion. Since then, she has won two more.

Her parents and siblings have actively supported her efforts, while her younger
sisters have worked as ring girls during competitions. She says the two sports
provide structure and discipline.

“I know I wouldn’t be in college today if I hadn’t started,” she says.

Roberts recently reached taekwondo black belt status. And with two more kick¬
boxing fights, she could become a pro fighter. However, she thinks she will be
happy in simply reaching that status and then turn to working on a career in
criminal justice.

“The structure prepares a kickboxer mentally for handling any given situation,”
she says. “We get in the situation and do sparring. It has greatly protected the
students who then can defend themselves better.”

She says her youngest student is 2. The oldest is 74. Many of her students at Mis¬
souri Southern are international students who may not have the opportunity to
obtain training in the sports in their home countries.

“Kickboxing is for really active people,” she says. “Taekwondo is for anyone and
everyone.”

VOICES OF

SOUTHERN

Dr. Maggie Beachner

Assistant Professor
Teacher Education

One of the things I love about working in higher education is
that no day is the same . . . except in one regard. Education is a
field where you leave every day and truly feel like you’ve made
a difference.

But working in higher- ed isn’t something I grew up consider¬
ing as a career. I had some fabulous mentors along the way who
helped guide me where I am today And now that I’m here -
wrapping up my second year at Missouri Southern - I can’t see
myself doing anything else.

I’ve been very blessed and feel so lucky to be a college professor,
especially now. There are a lot of changes happening at MSSU,
both in my department and at the university as a whole. It’s ex¬
citing to be a part of it.

My biggest focus, second from teaching, is coordinating our
graduate programs. We’re seeing a huge boost in applications,
which is translating into enrolled students.

Enrollment has grown to the point where we’re going to add
another cohort to our Master’s in Educational Administration
program. The Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction is also
booming, in part because of how flexible the online offerings
make it, but also because students are only required to take 18
hours of core classes. The other 18 hours of graduate study are
completely up to them, allowing them to create something of an
emphasis area. I think that’s very appealing.

Something else I am excited about is my first research project
here at Missouri Southern. Along with a few others in the de¬
partment, I’m working on a study to analyze our students’ expe¬
rience with substitute teaching.

We’re surveying students who have completed 60 hours or more
to find out how many of our students have had experience as a
substitute teacher, what led them to make that decision - or why
not, for those who haven’t - and what they gained from it.

If our students can sub before they get jobs, it just adds to the
clinical experience that they have in the classroom, helps them
with classroom management and more.

And if the survey shows that the experience is benefitting them,
our challenge will then be to make it so they have the opportu¬
nity to get that experience as part of their education.

I believe that this kind of work serves an important purpose. It
makes our students feel like they’re involved in decisions we’re
making as a department and that will ultimately affect them
- not just at the basic class level or program level, but in their
teaching career. It gives them that much more buy-in.

Students know when their teachers are thinking “big picture.”
They see when an assignment is relevant to their own lives. They
get it. And building that kind of a relationship with your stu¬
dents is what it’s all about.

To learn more about the opportunities available in the
Teacher Education program at Missouri Southern, visit www.mssu.edu/teacher-ed.

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WJ SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES

TRUMPET ENSEMBLE INCLUDED
IN NATIONAL COMPETITION

When you have just one shot at impressing the judges, every note counts.

That’s why the eight members of Missouri Southerns trumpet ensemble spent the spring semester focusing on the finer details of Erik
Morales “Infinite Ascent” - the selection they performed during the 2017 National Trumpet Competition.

The ensemble was selected as one of 16 from around the country to compete at the event, held March 23-25 in Denver, Colo. They compet¬
ed against peers from Oklahoma State, Baylor, Texas Tech, Southern Methodist University and others, and reached the semifinal round.

The focus of their intense rehearsal schedule leading up to the competition was to create a pristine performance.

“The song has a lot of highs and lows,” says freshman Valentin Vizcaino. “It starts out very beautifully, and about a third of the way through
it picks up the pace. Everyone is doing their own thing before coming together at the end. Its an intricate piece . . . very complicated.”

Trumpet professor Freddie Green says the eight students - including Jemetrius Brown, Tyler Jones, William Roach, Oliver Smith, Austin
Kinard, Jalen Ybarra, Tony Sfortunato and Vizcaino - were extremely dedicated to performing at an elite level.

“They did a wonderful job in pushing and motivating themselves,” says Green. “I was proud to see their progress and maturity through
this process.”

The competition also provided students a chance to attend master classes and clinics, attend concerts by international artists and visit with
representatives from potential graduate schools.

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SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
OFFERS SECOND PRODUCTION

The annual Missouri Shakespeare Festival will add a second pro¬
duction to the mix when it is presented June 19-24 in the Bud
Walton Theatre.

“A Midsummer Nights Dream” will be staged along with “The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” The latter
is a comic take on the Bard that zips through 37 plays in 97 min¬
utes, says Dr. Jim Lile, theater professor and coordinator of the
festival.

“That has always been our goal ... to have two productions run¬
ning in repertoire during the summer,” says Lile. ‘“The Complete
Works eases us into that, and there are only three actors in that
show. Ultimately, we want to have two shows - a comedy and a
tragedy - every year.”

Fundraising efforts are underway to offer visiting actors a stipend
for their participation. Visit www.mssu.edu/give-moshakes for
more information.

“The Complete Works” will open the festival and trade off nights
with “Midsummer.” Tickets for each production is $10. For more
information, visit www.mssu.edu/moshakes.

GAROUTTE
JOINS TEAM
TO DEVELOP
LAB EXPERIMENTS

Dr. Michael Garoutte has been ap¬
proved for a sabbatical in the spring
of 2018 as part of an effort that will
help create learning tools that can be
utilized by students around the United
States.

PHOTO EXHIBIT
CAPTURES SOBERING
IMPRESSIONS OF
AUSCHWITZ

Renowned photographer Orjan Henriksson offered a sobering ex¬
hibit of photography taken at a concentration camp during an ex¬
hibit held Feb. 20-March 17 in Spiva Art Gallery.

The black and white photos featured in “Auschwitz KZ I-II” were
a meditative study of light, texture and composition at the camp.
Henriksson, who has had a longstanding relationship with Mis¬
souri Southerns Art Department via the Summer in Sweden pro¬
gram, felt it was important to approach the subject in a manner that
would speak to those viewing the exhibit in a way that they might
not expect.

“My father told me when I was young that he wanted me to learn about
the time period before World War II to see if the signs ever came up
again,” says Henriksson. “Later, I saw a BBC documentary on another
concentration camp, and it was so beautifully photographed.

“I thought maybe my approach could be to make beautiful black
and white prints that people would be attracted to. There are no
swastikas or signs . . . just my impressions. (My pictures) speak with
a soft voice . . . more of a whisper. People need to get close for the
context.”

As one of the co-principal investigators on a multi-university
team, Garoutte applied for the sabbatical to help develop labora¬
tory experiments (such as how to determine the melting point of
solids) that can be used to teach general chemistry.

“We’ve submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation
and applied for a grant,” Garoutte says. “The idea is to create in¬
quiry-based experiments and fully develop them with a set of in¬
structions and teacher notes so that others can use it.”

Henriksson has lectured and taught photography at Mullsjo
Folkhogskola, University of Jonkoping and at Missouri Southern.
His works include both fine art and commercial photography.

He compares his approach to photography - the art of capturing a
“magic moment” - to penning a beautiful letter.

“If the handwriting is beautiful but there’s no message, you just en¬
joy the handwriting,” he says. “If the handwriting is less good but
there’s a good story, it’s more interesting. If you can combine nice
writing with a nice story . . . then you have a good photograph.”

MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY

JUNIOR AARON SMITH ATTENDS
PURE IDEA GENERATOR EVENT

It all started with an idea . . . and then a Tweet.

Junior Aaron Smith was selected last fall as a finalist for St. Louis University’s Pure Idea Generator Challenge, spending an afternoon atop
the City Museum with 23 others as they pitched ideas to local entrepreneurs. The accounting major is a member of Missouri Southerns
Entrepreneurship Club.

“I heard about the contest through the club,” says Smith. “You had to tweet them and pitch an idea to St. Louis University’s entrepreneurship
center. They picked the most original and creative ideas.” The parameters of the contest were to combine two existing technologies to create
“the next big thing.”

“My idea was a water bottle that tracks how much water you drink and then syncs with your personal fitness device,” says Smith.

The finalists gathered on the museum rooftop and were given a new challenge by the mayor of St. Louis: Develop ideas for how the city
can attract and retain graduates into the local job market. To get the creative juices flowing, the finalists developed ideas while riding in the
museum’s three-story Ferris wheel.

“Our group came up with a work-for-tuition incentive program,” says Smith. “It would help reduce tuition rates while connecting students
with local businesses. It would give them more of a connection to the city . . . more than just the place where they go to school.

“It was really cool, and the thing I took away was the importance of the pitch. We met with business leaders to find out what they’re looking
for when they hear your pitch. It can be nerve-wracking, but if your idea is good enough, it’s a lot easier to stand behind it.”

Missouri Southern’s Entrepreneurship Club is now in its second year on campus.

“The club was created to promote entrepreneurship and what that means in today’s society,” says Ken Surbrugg who, along with Karen
Bradshaw, serves as a staff advisor to the group.

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AUTOMATION MINOR OFFERS HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE

Launched in Fall 2016, the new automation minor program is giving students hands-on experience that will prove invaluable in the
workforce.

“Its a program that was recommended by our advisory board,” says Dr. Elke Howe, chair of the Engineering Technology department.
“Even if some manufacturing companies aren’t automated yet, it’s bound to happen in the years to come.”

The 18-credit-hour minor gives students experience with equipment and techniques that can simulate how products are made as well
as to develop improvement processes. Last year, Leggett & Platt’s Automotive Group donated a new industrial robot in support of the
program.

“We’ve got some good equipment,” says James March, an assistant professor in the Engineering Technology program. “We have the robot
and a CNC (Computer Numerically Controlleed) machine for the automatic fabrication of parts, and a manufacturing cell integrated
with conveyors, inspection devices and sensors for semi-realistic manufacturing.

“A lot of companies both locally and nationally need skilled people who are able to install, design, operate and maintain automatic
equipment. With electronics becoming cheaper, automation is definitely becoming much more prevalent in industry.”

STUDENTS TO TRAVEL
TO UKRAINE, GERMANY

Eighteen undergrad and graduate students will
travel to Ukraine and Germany in May, getting
a firsthand glimpse at aspects of international
businesses beyond their classroom textbooks.

“They’ll be able to look at and compare
countries within the European Union,” says
Dr. Chris Moos, Interim Dean of the School
of Business, who will lead the trip. Germany
is a member state of the EU, while Ukraine has
taken steps toward membership.

“Our graduate students - who are working on
their master of science in management degree
- will be able to view their management styles,
techniques and laws.”

Rebecca Ross, a junior international business
major, says she’s already brushing up on her
language skills in preparation.

“Right now I’m learning German and I’ll be
taking Russian before we go on the trip,” she
says. “I want to connect with other people and
learn more about business there.”

The Engineering Technology department hosted more than 100 area middle- and high-
school students for the annual Technology Student Association Conference in February.
Hosted by the Engineering Technology Department, the event included competition
categories such as Technology Problem Solving, Humanoid Robotic Dance, Debating
Technology Issues, Technology Bowl and Forensic Technology.

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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

NEW PRACTICUM GIVES EDUCATION
MAJORS AN EARLY START IN THE CLASSROOM

A new practicum at Missouri Southern is moving future elementary school teachers into the classroom earlier.

Education 415 takes place the semester before student teaching. Students spend all day in an elementary school classroom on
Wednesdays. They attend classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays but get a substitute certificate and are free to substitute on Mondays
and Fridays.

Sheila Darner, director of Clinical Field Experiences, says students are taking part in elementary school classes in Joplin, Webb City
and Carthage. One student has also been placed into an elementary school in Grove, Okla.

“This practicum will better prepare our future teachers by giving them an earlier authentic experience in a school setting,” says Dr.
Deborah Brown, dean of the School of Education. “It combines several smaller practicums into a more integrated experience.”

“It is important to get candidates out in the field early to begin the connections between theory and practice,” says Lorinda Hackett,
Teacher Education department chair.

Darner says Education 415 candidates can be placed in grades 1 through 6 (although most schools only offer classes through the fifth
grade). During the spring semester, a total of 18 teacher candidates are taking part in Education 415. Currently, the practicum is only
being offered to Elementary Education majors.

“We plan on reviewing the results and we hope to expand the concept to middle schools in the future,” Darner says.

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KINESIOLOGY CO-SPONSORS ARCHERY SHOOTOUT

Area school districts participated in the Academy Outdoors Shootout on March 4 at the Leggett &
Platt Athletic Center - an event coordinated by a School of Education graduate.

This years archery tournament was sponsored by the MSSU Department of Kinesiology, Academy
Outdoors and American Whitetail. School systems at Carl Junction, Carthage, Joplin and Sarcoxie
(The SW Missouri Archery Alliance) were co-hosts.

Elementary, middle- and high-school divisions were included, as well as individual competitions.

Chelsi Leggett, a Carl Junction High School physical education teacher and archery coach, received
her bachelor’s in secondary education from Missouri Southern. She says Carl Junction is in its fifth
year of competition in archery.

Leggett says local archery efforts are an outgrowth of the National Archery in the Schools Program
(NASP).

“Its not like any other sport. Its limitless,” she says. “Any student can find success in the program.
That doesn’t necessarily mean a medal but it means they can see huge improvements of their starting
point and ending point in one season based on their score.”

Leggett was an athlete while attending school in Carl Junction where she participated in volleyball,
basketball and track. She also hunted and fished with her father.

“It wasn’t until I applied for the job at Carl Junction that I got serious about starting outdoor sports
at Carl Junction,” she states. “When given the go-ahead to get certified as an Archery instructor and
bring NASP to our school, I jumped on it and there’s been no turning back.”

The Carl Junction team recently began practicing at a closed grocery store in Carl Junction. Every
September the team holds an annual fundraiser with a chili feed, aerial archery, a dunk tank, Ar¬
chery Tag and other events to cover utilities at the building and meet other expenses.

SOUTHERN ALUM ACCEPTS
JOPLIN HIGH PRINCIPAL POSITION

Dr. Brandon Eggleston, a 1999 Teacher Education graduate at Missouri Southern, took over in July as principal at
Joplin High School.

Eggleston attended Joplin’s North Middle School as a child and graduated from Missouri Southern State Univer¬
sity. Later he returned to North as principal for four years before accepting the job at JHS. Some may remember
Eggleston from his days as a first baseman for the MSSU baseball team. He played with the team from 1993-1998.

“Every time my old teammates and I see each other, we are able to go back to that part of our life and enjoy some
laughs and memories together,” he said.

Eggleston says his father and mother were his primary role models.

“I still am blessed to have them in my life,” he says. “Also, Coach Warren Turner had an impact on me, and I still
lean on the lessons I learned from him.”

Although serving in a leadership role can be demanding, he says it goes part and parcel with his original motiva¬
tions to establish a career in education.

“It is a big job and I am busy, but I do have a balance,” Eggleston says. “My three kids and my wife are my priority.”

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PEDIATRIC ASTHMA BECOMES FOCUS
FOR RESPIRATORY CARE PROGRAM

A brainstorming session on potential areas of focus for the Respiratory Care program at Missouri Southern may have people breathing easier.

“We identified that there seems to be a need for more education in the pediatric asthma arena, primarily at the school level,” says Glenda
Pippin, director of the Respiratory Care department.

There were several state-funded grants available about five years ago for asthma education in schools, but they have since expired.

“A lot of those services where therapists were able to go into schools have gone away,” says Pippin. “Some of these kids don’t see doctors rou¬
tinely, so sometimes it’s the school nurse who’s the person that might be able to intervene and get them a little extra care or maybe a referral.”

The department will host a symposium on pediatric asthma from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, in the North End Zone Facility. It will
feature speakers and other programs designed to raise awareness of the issue, and will target school nurses, EMS workers, doctors and others
in the health care field.

'There are so many kids who do have (asthma), so the schools need education,” says Sherry Whiteman, an instructor in the program and
president of the Missouri Society for Respiratory Care. “The education that is provided so far doesn’t focus on pediatric asthma ... a lot of it
is focused on adult care.”

Whiteman says there is a high incidence of pediatric asthma in the Southwest Missouri region due to high levels of allergens.

“If we can educate them as kids about this disease, they’re going to do a lot better as adults,” she says. “And if we can train (school nurses) and
show them how to help kids manage it well, that’s going to do a lot for a patient.”

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WORK UNDERWAY TO CREATE
DENTAL HYGIENE BACHELOR'S DEGREE

The Dental Hygiene program at Missouri Southern is working to
make a transition from the current associate of science in dental
hygiene to a four-year bachelor s degree.

“Our timeline is to have the proposed curriculum and plan of study
ready to propose to the School Curriculum Oversight Committee,
the Academic Policies Committee and the Faculty Senate by Sep¬
tember,” says Stacie Scrivner, chair of the department.

STATE NURSING BOARD
APPROVES NEW COHORT

From there, the proposed bachelor s program would go before the
Board of Governors, the programs accrediting body and the Mis¬
souri Department of Higher Education.

Missouri Southern has received approval from the Missouri State
Board of Nursing to increase the number of students added to the
university’s nursing program each year.

Scrivner says more states are adopting the Advanced Dental Hy¬
giene Practitioner model created by the American Dental Hy¬
gienists Association - a program open to dental hygienists with a
bachelors degree that allows them to become preventive special¬
ists, clinical researchers and more competitive in sales and other
areas.

“(Having a bachelors degree) will open more doors for our stu¬
dents and make them more marketable,” she says. “We want to get
our students out there and ready to go if they want to get their
master s degree.”

Starting this fall, there will be a cohort of 45 students entering the
nursing program in the fall and the spring, for a total of 90 each
academic year.

Missouri Southern has previously admitted only a single cohort of
60 nursing students each fall.

The increase in student numbers comes in response to a nursing
shortage. By producing nursing graduates in May and December
each year, health care organizations will be able to address nursing
vacancies in a more timely manner.

BOOK SALES TO SUPPORT NEW LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Drawing on his experience transitioning from a two-decade career as a physician to healthcare admin¬
istration, Dr. Richard Schooler has authored a book focusing on achieving success with a strategic plan.

“Planning for Organizational Success: A Leadership Guide to Achieving Success with a Plan” - published
by Dorrance Publishing Company in Pittsburgh, Penn. - offers a message he believes many young leaders
are missing as they pursue their education.

Schooler, the Dean of Health Sciences, practiced as an OB/GYN physician in Joplin before becoming
medical director and director of medical education for Freeman Health System. In 2006, he was named
the hospitals chief medical officer, and in 2013 the executive vice president and chief operating officer.

That experience, along with leading the process of creating a strategic plan for the hospital following the devastating May 22, 2011,
tornado that struck Joplin, helped him develop an appreciation for the importance of leadership. About a year and a half ago, he began
to put his thoughts on paper about the critical importance of planning for organizations, as well as the dynamics of leadership and the
importance of adaptability and accountability.

Available via Amazon, the Dorrance Publishing online bookstore and by contacting Schooler, book sales will help promote a new aca¬
demic program in healthcare leadership and management that Schooler is working to introduce at Missouri Southern.

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LIONS

ATHLETICS

V-"33H .s’MI

PUTTING HIMSELF ON THE LINE

SENIOR LARS LINDQUIST BATTLES BACK FROM ILLNESS

Lindquist's story
of perseverance
and his desire
to come back
is definitely
reflective of his
personality and
willpower.

It was the spring of 2015 and Missouri Southern senior football player Lars Lindquist was
working out in the weight room when he felt light-headed and tried to sit up.

When he got up, Lindquist blacked out. The next thing he remembers is waking up on the
floor, covered in blood and soon being put into an ambulance.

“I had been having issues with my lungs for a little while and I thought it might have been
a cold or allergies, so I didn’t really pay too much attention to it,” he said. “It progressed
to shortness of breath and I started having issues sprinting without being entirely out of
breath and almost passing out then. That wasn’t me, I’m usually in much better shape than
that.”

What Lindquist was feeling would turn out to be a pulmonary embolism: a blood clot that
usually starts out in the legs and travels to the lungs. Prompt treatment can greatly reduce
the risk of death, but situations like this are very risky.

Missouri Southern athletic trainer Amanda Wolf saw Lindquist come out of the weight

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room and collapse. She immediately rushed to treat Lars and that
prompt attention helped him on his road to recovery.

“He was lying face down and wasn’t breathing normally,” Wolf said.
“I rolled him over and began preparing to give him CPR, but once
he rolled over, he began to breathe normally again.”

Not only did Lindquist recover, he got himself back in playing shape.

“Lars is very lucky to have had the opportunity to come back and
play,” Wolf said. “He had to be very patient and put in a lot of work
at the same time. For some, it would have been more than what they
wanted to take on. It would have been easy to say, Tm done with
football.’ But Lars wanted to finish his college career on his own
terms. He had a goal to come back and play football. And he did.”

Lindquist, a native of New Mexico, had to watch all of 2015 from
the bench.

“It was really tough watching that season,” Lindquist said. “Those
were my guys, the seniors that I came in with. Your natural instinct
is to want to help and I felt I could have been a help. But we got
through that and here I am.”

When he returned to the field, he also had to adjust to a new position.
Coach Denver Johnson saw potential for him on the offensive line
rather the other side of the ball. During the 2016 season, he started
in all 1 1 games for the Lions.

“I had a lot of fun with this group of guys on the line,” Lindquist
said. “Coach Bill Bleil is the best offensive line coach I’ve ever had
and he definitely helped me out and refreshed me on my technique.
He was very understanding and he just got me back and helped
shake the rust off really fast.”

Lindquist’s story of perseverance and his desire to come back is
definitely reflective of his personality and willpower.

“Lars wasn’t going to let this stop him from fulfilling his goal,” Wolf
said. “So he listened to the doctors, listened to his body and did
what he needed to come back and play.”

A professional and technical writing major, Lindquist will graduate
in May and hopes to become a sports journalist.

“I like hearing the backgrounds of athletes,” he said. “There’s a lot of
interesting stories and I like hearing champions speak. I would love
to have the opportunity to help tell their stories.”

The Missouri Southern men's and women's basketball teams both qualified for
the MIAA Tournament this year - the 20th straight appearance for the men.
The men had four players named All-MIAA, with Elyjah Clark earning MIAA
Freshman of the Year honors. The others were CJ Carr, Lawrence Brown and
JJ Cratit. Deb Holcomb and Desirea Burege were named All-MIAA on the
women's side.

The men's and women's track and field teams both finished third at the MIAA
Indoor Championships, and the program qualified eight individuals for the
NCAA Indoor Championships. Two from the women's squad (Allie Heckemeyer
and Emily Presley) join six from the men (Bryan Burns, Kennan Harrison, Morgan
Hold, Junior Joseph, Vincent Kiprop and Jordyn Manier) in making this year's
championship field.

MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY

SALLIE BEARD INDUCTED INTO
MISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Former Missouri Southern coach and Athletic Director Sallie Beard has joined the impressive ranks
of those who have helped define athletics in Missouri.

Beard was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame as part of the fourth-annual Womens
Sports Luncheon presented by the Bee Payne-Stewart Foundation on March 30 in Springfield, Mo.

££If you had told me when I was a student at Missouri Southern that I would have been fortunate
enough to have the career that I would have, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Beard said. ££As I reflect
on my career, I feel very fortunate to have the breadth of experience I was afforded. I am humbled
and honored by the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame deciding to recognize my career.”

Beard served Missouri Southern State University as both coach and athletic director for 37 years
before her retirement in 2009. She single-handedly created womens athletics at Missouri Southern
when she started the first womens sports teams, serving as head coach of basketball, softball, tennis,
and track and field. For 25 years, she was the womens athletic director. In 2001, she was named the
first athletic director to oversee both the mens and womens athletic programs at the university.

In 2014, Beard was awarded the Nike Lifetime Achievement Award by NACWAA, the National As¬
sociation of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators. She is a member of the Missouri Southern
State University Athletics Hall of Fame and the Joplin Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2010 she was
inducted into the inaugural class of the MIAA Hall of Fame.

VINCENT KIPROP BREAKS RECORDS,

SECURES NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Sophomore Vincent Kiprop kept up his winning pace during the 2016-17 year, breaking records in
the process.

The distance runner from Kericho, Kenya, won his third national championship in March by taking
the top spot in the 5,000 meters during the 2017 NCAA Division II Indoor National Champion¬
ships in Birmingham, Ala. His time of 13:42:42 broke not only his Missouri Southern record by
nine seconds, but the Division II National Championship meet record by two seconds.

Just a few short weeks later, he set a new facility record - and broke his own outdoor 5k record by
22 seconds - during the Washington University Invite. Kiprop finished the race in an NCAA auto¬
matic qualifying time of 13:53.74, 34 seconds in front of the second-place finisher in the race. The
time is the fastest overall in Division II this year, and is the second-fastest time in the NCAA in all
divisions.

He also holds national championship rankings in the indoor 5k, the outdoor 10k and cross country.

His success comes hot on the heels of a successful 2015-16 track and field season.

During his freshman year, the nursing major won the Division II National Championship in the
10,000 meter at the 2016 Division II Outdoor Championships. He was also a repeat champion at the
MIAA and NCAA Division II meets.

££We are all getting to witness first-hand one of the most dominating distance runners the NCAA
and Division II has seen,” said Jared Bruggeman, Director of Athletics. “I think I speak for everyone
here at Missouri Southern by saying we are very proud to have him wear the Green and Gold.”

CROSSROADS MAGAZINE | SPRING 2017

FRAZIER, SANTIAGO INDUCTED SOPHOMORE EMILY PRESLEY

INTO MIAA HALL OF FAME SETTING A HIGH BAR FOR SUCCESS

Former Missouri Southern point guard Eddin Santiago and
former MSSU athletic director and football coach Jim Frazier
have been inducted into the MIAA Hall of Fame.

Frazier led MSSU to the NAIA National Football Title during
the 1972 season and is the schools all-time winningest football
coach. Frazier would then serve as the director of athletics, where
under his tenure, the school won 23 conference championships
and one NCAA Division II National Championship. He helped
in the development and improvement of several MSSU facilities
including Young Gymnasium, Fred G. Hughes Stadium and the
Leggett & Platt Athletic Center.

He was inducted into the MSSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986.

Santiago was the Lions starting point guard from 1998-2002
where he helped the team to MIAA and NCAA regional titles.
The 1999-2000 season saw the Lions go 30-3 and advance to the
NCAA Elite Eight, falling in the semifinals.

Santiago holds the MIAA career record in both steals and
assists. His 383 career steals rank second all-time in Division
II. He was a three-time first-team All-MIAA selection and was
twice named an All-American earning MVP of the 2000 NCAA
Division II Central Regional Tournament. Santiago is one of just
19 mens basketball players at Missouri Southern to score 1,000
points and is 16th all-time in MSSU history with 1,108 points.

Santiago was selected to the MSSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 20 1 2.

The pair join five other individuals (Sallie Beard, Pat Lipira, Rod
Smith, Tom Rutledge and Warren Turner) as well as the 1992
NCAA National Champion Softball Team as MSSU members
of the MIAA Hall of Fame.

A sophomore at Missouri Southern State University is soaring
to new heights as a member of the womens track and field team.

Emily Presley, a pole vaulter from St. Clair, Mo., won her event
five meets in a row this spring and was named MIAA Co-
Field Athlete of the Week three times. At the Pittsburg State
track meet, she won the pole vault by clearing 14-00.00, which
solidified her spot as the top pole vaulter in Division II.

Presley has been pole vaulting since seventh grade,
when she attended a camp at Missouri Southern.

She says her experience with the MSSU track and
field team has been amazing.

“I am just super happy that we have the coaches
and staff that we do here in the athletics
department overall,” she says. “I still have a
lot of room to grow and I have a lot of goals
that I have set for myself.”

She says she has thought about going pro, and
that she feels that she is on track to get there.

“I just need to stay on task because I have a set of
tasks that I need to accomplish every season.”

Presley says her favorite part about pole vaulting
is the rush of adrenaline that comes along with it.

“I can practice all week and then I get to the meet
and its a whole new ball game,” she says. “The
adrenalin I get from clearing a big bar is like nothing
else.”

MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY

CLASS NOTES

Let us know what's going on in your life! Email us at alumni@mssu.edu

1970s 1990s

Dr. Ronald Lankford, ’71, received the
Robert C. Howe Service to Secondary
Education Award from the Missouri
Association of Secondary School
Principals.

Daniel Koch, ’72, is the chairman,
president and CEO of Wilmington
Insurance Company in Wilmington, Del.

1980s

Tom Hempen, ’81, is a sales manager at
Joe Harding Sales & Service in Joplin.

Lori (Churchwell) Alburty, ’84, is
the office manager for Construction
Adventures Inc. in Joplin.

Teresa (Athey) Boyer, ’86, is a counselor
at Carl Junction High School in Carl
Junction, Mo.

Lee Elliff Pound, ’86, received the
ATHENA Leadership Award at the
2017 Carthage Chamber of Commerce
Banquet. This is a nationally recognized
award presented in recognition of those
who support, develop and honor women
leaders.

Randy Murawski, ’86, retired from
American Family Insurance after 25 years.
He is now doing sports and programming
research for OnMedia in Springfield, Mo.,
a division of Mediacom.

Scott Danley, ’89, is a software engineer
at Leggett & Platt in Carthage, Mo.

Erik Schrader, ‘90, is the vice president
and general manager of WOIO-TV and
WUAB-TV, Raycom Media’s CBS and
MY Network affiliates in Cleveland, Ohio.

Gina Robbins, ’91, received the Golden
Key Award from the Carthage Chamber
of Commerce.

Michelle Wood, ’93, is the director of
leadership annual giving at Missouri
Southern State University.

Lacinda Powell, ’94, is a jeweler and owner
of Cindi’s One Hour Jewelers in Joplin.

Barbara (Wagner) Roberts, ’99, received
the Administrative Faculty Committee of
the Year Award for 2017 at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. She works in
the Admissions and Recruitment
Department at UNLV.

2000s

Christopher McFall, ’01, is the assistant
director of respiratory therapy at Freeman
Health System in Joplin.

Tyler Smith, ’03, received the Emerging
Leader of the Year Award from the
Carthage Chamber of Commerce. This
award is presented in recognition of
individuals who further their career path
or begin a new career path.

Jonathan Beville, ’04, is the director of
global sales and business development at
Heyltex Corporation in Washington, D.C.

Amanda Powell, ’05, completed doctoral
studies and earned her Doctorate in
Education in July 2016. She is an adjunct
professor at Crowder College.

Derick White, ’06, was cast as Chef Louis
in the upcoming production of “The
Little Mermaid” at Chaska Valley Family
Theatre in Chaska, Minn.

Ashley Harmon, ’08, along with her
husband, Sean, received the Golden
Hammer Award. This award is presented
by Carthage Historic Preservation in
recognition of an historic property being
preserved in a historically appropriate
manner.

Amy (Spry) Jones, ’08, earned a master’s
of science degree in Reading with an
emphasis as a Reading Specialist from
Pittsburg State University.

2010s

Brooke (Lairmore) Rohlfing, ‘10, has

been named as one of five Missouri School
Public Relations Association members as
a National School Public Relations “35
Under 35” awardee.

Dustin Sisney, ’ll, is a national ad sales
manager for Storrs Media Inc. in Westlake
Village, Calif.

Michelle (Martin) Bridgman, ‘11, a

talent acquisition specialist at TAMKO
Building Products, Inc. has been selected

CROSSROADS MAGAZINE | SPRING 2017

as an honoree for the Society for Human
Resource Managements t£30 Under 30”
for 2016.

Chelsea Jones, ’12, was awarded Disney’s
highest cast member honor, the Walt
Disney Legacy Award.

Mykelnn Youngblood, ’12, passed
her board exams and is now a PA-C,
certified by the National Commission on
Certification of Physician Assistants.

Josh Mason, ‘13, a Notre Dame biological
science graduate student, was selected
as one of 42 students to attend the 2017
National Graduate Student Symposium
at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital
in Memphis, Tenn. He presented his
recent discovery regarding the survival of
cancer cells.

Mary Pace, ‘14, is working at USD
383 Head Start and Early Head Start in
Manhattan, Kan.

Eryn (Alcorn) Walters, ’14, is the
development events coordinator for
Missouri State University - West Plains.

Chelsea (Hardy) Conley, ’15, is the
director of donor relations at Missouri
Southern State University.

Brook D. Gipson, ’15, was accepted to
Washington University’s School of Law
in St. Louis, Mo.

Arlisa Arwood, 5 16, is a realtor for
Charles Burt Realtors in Joplin.

Breck Mitchell, ‘17, has been accepted to
the Doctor of Physical Therapy program
at Southwest Baptist University.

MARRIAGES

Nathan Aycock and Lindsay Baker, ’17,

were married on March 25, 2016.

Brett Dieckhoff, ’15, and Lydia McGriff, ’14,

were married on June 24, 2016.

Nathan Smith and Mischa Gooch, ’00,

were married on Oct. 22, 2016.

Connor Wiseman and Kayla Thaman, ’16,

LION CUBS

Claire

Elisabeth

Anderson

Quinley

Rose

Adams

Annabelle

Ruth

Adams

Beck

Lee

Cornett

Kevin, ’12, and Carrie (Spry)
Burgi, ’10, welcomed
Olivia Ann on Oct. 1, 2016

Aaron and Kim (Hadley)
Smith, ’08, welcomed
Madison Rose on Oct. 21, 2016.

Mark and Andrea (Monroe)
Mehrens, TO, welcomed
Joby James on October 23, 2016.

Ty, T5, and Brenna (Barr)
Anderson, T3, welcomed
Claire Elisabeth on Oct. 24, 2016.

Kirk, ’09, and Amy (Spry)
Jones, ’08, welcomed
Kael Thomas on Oct. 27, 2016.

Chance and Meagan (Wirth)
Adams, ’08, welcomed
Quinley Rose on Oct. 31, 2016.

Landon, ‘12, and Katie (Smith)
Adams, ‘14, welcomed
Annabelle Ruth on Nov. 20, 2016

Chris, ‘04, and Erin (Patton)
Parrigon, ’04, welcomed
Evan Christopher on Jan, 7, 2017.

Eddin, ’02, and Daisy
Santiago welcomed
Yeshua Eliah on Jan. 19, 2017.

Aron and Jessica (Stansill)
Cornett, ’08, welcomed
Beck Lee on Feb. 16, 2017.

MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY

IN MEMORIUM

STUDENTS

Lorenzo Jones

October 9, 2016

ALUMNI

Jack D. Day

Sept.30, 2016

Beverley A. Coiner
Oct. 1, 2016

Rodney J. Roberson, ’80

Oct. 3, 2016

Donald R. Sewell, ’16

Oct. 8, 2016

Susan L. Ernest, ’82
Oct. 16, 2016

Terry C. Clark, ’06
Oct. 24, 2016

Penny Moorehouse-Coates, ’83
Oct. 27, 2016

Joyce Harrington, ’75
Oct. 30, 2016

Melissa Meinhardt

Nov. 2, 2016

Edward L. Johnson, ’48

Nov. 17, 2016

Christopher H. Reynolds, ’94

Nov. 19, 2016

Amy E. Smith, ’98

Nov. 24, 2016

Joyce Wilson-Cantrell, ’64

Nov. 24, 2016

Susan D. Shriver, ’08

Dec. 7, 2016

Dr. Karen (Stapp) Hatcher, ’74
Dec. 8, 2016

Betty J. Robinson-Gray, ’73

Dec. 27, 2016

Cathy Reichman-VanOstran, ’85
Dec. 31,2016

Linda Danner, ’68

Jan. 2, 2017

Jene R. Baldwin, ’66

Jan. 3, 2017

Robert C. Basye, ’68
Jan. 10, 2017

Jose “Adam” Deras, ’14
Jan. 10, 2017

Bobby D. Ballard, Sr.

Jan. 25, 2017

Peter R. Bodon, ’81

Jan. 31,2017

Harold L. Jacobs, ’71

Feb. 5, 2017

Jessie L. (Souder) Davis, ’65
Feb. 11,2017

Gail V. Hurlbut, ’98

Feb. 18, 2017

Jerald R. Martin, ’76

Feb. 28, 2017

Jay Williams, ’75
March 16, 2017

FRIENDS

David O. Cole

Sept. 29, 2016

James V. Doran
Oct. 1,2016

Jerrold L. Riley

Oct. 5, 2016

Ed C. Zengel
Dec. 18, 2016

Mary Parrish Belk

Dec. 25, 2016

Herbert Casteel
Jan. 10, 2017

Dorothy Hemphill

Jan. 28, 2017

Kenneth Steele

Feb. 5, 2017

William Major

Feb. 11,2017

Ethel Beechwood

Feb. 15,2017

Tom Taylor
Feb. 16,2017

Doris Elgin

March 17, 2017

FACULTY & STAFF

Dr. Robert “Kip” Heth

Environmental Science
Dec. 14, 2016

Barbara Spencer
Criminal Justice 1973-2013
Feb. 19,2017

DR. CAROLYN PRATER

JOPLIN, MISSOURI

MISSOURI SOUTHERN

FOUNDATION

Tom Ward was always a student at heart.

“He went to law school and, prior to that, he was a dentist,” says
Dr. Carolyn Prater of her late husband. “After law school, he
decided to go to medical school. Tom was a lifelong student . . .
being a student, being a teacher was his thing.”

Prater - a pediatrician at ACCESS Family Care - and her husband
moved to Joplin in 1994. He joined the radiology department at
what was then St. Johns Regional Medical Center. While there,
he worked closely with the Radiology Department at Missouri
Southern to help train students.

At that point in his life, he was in a wheelchair due to a degenerative
spinal cord issue. But his condition did nothing to dampen his
enthusiasm for teaching students about the profession.

“He was a man who could really set his mind to something,” says
Prater. “He taught a lot of students and was very well respected
in this area.”

When Tom passed away in June 20 1 5, Prater established a patrons
scholarship in his name. The Dr. Thomas L. Ward Memorial
Scholarship is awarded to two students each year - one to a first-
year radiology student, and another to a second-year.

Prater said she was excited to be able to meet with two of the
most recent recipients during a dinner for university donors.

“They were both really wonderful and I got to tell them about
Tom,” she said. “They were exactly the kinds of students he
would really like - he loved the kids who were energized and
excited about the program.”

Donor-funded scholarships at MSSU come in all shapes
and sizes. To discuss scholarship opportunities through the
MSSU Foundation, please call 417-625-9615.

MISSOURI

SOUTHERN

STATE UNIVERSITY,

3950 East Newman Road
Joplin, Missouri 64801

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